David Cameron names Alan Sugar as ‘enterprise tsar’

British business magnate Alan Sugar has been appointed the U.K. government’s "enterprise tsar," Downing Street announced on Wednesday.

Sugar will be tasked with encouraging as many young people as possible to start their own businesses while also convincing companies to take on apprentices. He will travel across England to speak to local school-leavers and businesses, according to a government press release.

Sugar, who started computer firms and hosted the British version of "The Apprentice" TV program in which he advised young entrepreneurs, is "ideally placed to champion the cause of both entrepreneurship and apprenticeships,” the statement said.

Sugar said that “not enough of our young people know about apprenticeships and what they offer, and too few feel empowered to set up their own business.”

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Maria Valentina Umer

One more neo-liberal measure. The State, mostly run by Eton boys born into wealth and run by equally old-wealth Lords, discards its responsibility to create jobs with secure social benefits — to a presumably better opportunity in entrepeneurship for school leavers. This is cynical! Given the state of miserable education in British public schools, the youngsters could not fight their way out of a paper bag. Those in elite schools have it made, from their ancestors. Frankly, the UK continues to be a system of those-who-have and those-who-have-not.

Posted on 5/25/16 | 3:22 PM CET

DanTheMan

Sugar started life as a market stall trader, couldn’t be less old money if he tried 🙂
Know when to shut up Maria.